**Happy New Slimming World Year**

bettyB_2

Hi all,

Back on SW with a vengeance now - going to visit my local group soon to get the new books (prob wont return tho - dont have £5 a week to spare at the mo!)

Having a Green day today
Banana
Lots of cups of Tea with milk throughout the day (HEA)
Scrambled egg on 1 slice ww toast (HEB)
jacket potato with beans and cheese (HEA) - got a new microwave! Going to be having lotsa jackets now I dont have to wait a flippin hour each time!
Dinner will be spinach and ricotta open lasagne (HEB for the ricotta) with a tomato and herb sauce
Desser will be 1 thorntons choc (OH is hiding them from me and giving me 1 each day!) I think they are about 5/6 syns
OR I'll have a shape dessert (5.5 syns)

glad you had a good holiday Dizzy

Happy new year everyone !

dizzyk

Good Morning All

My head is still in Mexico time and Im seriously confused with the time at the mo lol. Not long Til you'l be setting off there Trixie.....Im jealous already LMAO

Just about to set off to the Hosp to see the consultant to sign the forms for my magic ear Op wooooohoooooo :T:T:D:D bad bit is Ive gotta hand the Dalek band back too today ....bummer eh (so no talking behind my back :rotfl::rotfl:)

Il be back later to Post what Ive eaten....but seeing as weve not done a shop things may be a little ropey on the SW front until I WI on thursday me thinks (but with the excess baggage ive brought back on the bum area I really dont think its going to make much difference) I havent done the sneaky peak home WI that I planned yet as Im all blown up still with fluid on my legs from the flight.....may do it tomorrow/later today.

Right must dash (well as much as a dizzy person safely can without ending up in a heap;))

Tara for now......keep on being good everyone!!!!!!!!!! x x x

Dontknowanymore

Morning all you gorgeous loosers!

Another 100% day for me today, I just saw a recipie on this morning which is totally SW friendly and looks bloody nice!
http://thismorning.itv.com/thismorning/food/sin-free-creamy-chicken-hot-pot


Sin-free creamy chicken hot pot

Serves 4
Ingredients:
2 large potatoes
1 large leek, cleaned
2 cloves of garlic
Sprig of thyme
100ml of low fat crème fraiche
Parmesan cheese
250g frozen peas
450g cooked chicken (use leftovers from a roast or roast off some thighs and drummers)
Butter, salt and pepper


Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 6 (200C)
2. In a large roasting tray, scatter the cooked chicken and peas.
3. Slice and sweat the leek in a little oil in a frying pan until soft. Add one clove of garlic for the last minute. Stir in the crème fraiche.
4. Pour the leek and garlic mix over the chicken and peas.
5. Next, move onto the potatoes. Thinly slice the potatoes and put them in a bowl.
6. Crush the second clove of garlic and add to the bowl with some salt and pepper.
7. Toss to coat the potatoes.
8. Lay the potatoes over the top of the roasting tray, dot with a few knobs of butter or a lick or olive oil and pop in the oven for 35 minutes with foil over the top, then 20 minutes with the foil off to crisp up the potatoes
9. Serve at the table with some steamed fresh greens.


its obviously not syn free, but seems very low syn, and you dontb need to use butter, just fry light x

lisa26_2

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

:j she is back :j -glad you had a lovely time Dizzy :T

Hello to the newbies that joined this evening and well done to those with losses :T

Lisa -oooohh nomnomnom Lychee ... simply peel and then I shove them in and spit the stone back out *very ladylike* :rotfl: -I love them...must look out for some now you have mentioned them

Thanks for that MrsM, I googled how to prep them and that had me trying to remove the fruit from the stone before eating......I deffo prefer your idea of putting them in whole!! I'm not sure how much I like them but I'll eat the ones I have left! OH thought the texture was weird!!!

I'm going for a green day today. It's my first day back at work and I'm struggling, I've had such a lovely time being at home and getting lots of jobs done that I really didn't want to come back! Over the last few days I haver made all the invitations and order of service's for my wedding (just need to print the inserts and stick them in) and yesterday I peeled and pickled 6.5kg of shallots :eek: it took all day!!!

SO here's the menu:

Brekkie - porridge (HEA&B), pear
Lunch - HM soup, leftover plain pasta (wierd I know!!)
Tea - lasagne (HEB & part HEA), salad, sw chips.
Snacks - apple, pear.

Not ure about syns, might have some ketchup or salad cream at tea and perhaps one choccy from the xmas mountain!!!

Skintslimmer

bettyB wrote: »

Desser will be 1 thorntons choc (OH is hiding them from me and giving me 1 each day!) I think they are about 5/6 syns

:eek: For one thorntons choc?? Do double check that - i'm sure the quality street equivalent is about 2-3 each - surely it can't really be much more than them??

Have you got the recipe for the ricotta and spinach lasagne? Sounds delish

Today:

Fried egg, beans, tomatoes and mushrooms

My dad's recipe chicken soup - Its lurvely but does include things like a tin of cambells condensed tomato, and one of their mushroom soups in the recipe! However, it makes a shed load of soup, and the rest of the ingredients are free on EE, so if I count 3 syns per portion I think I'm safe.

That's either be for lunch or dinner (with jacket spud) - I've got some roasted butternut squash and onions begging to have something made of them, so I'm thinking cous cous and bits, with some of the fantastic frittata that's in the fridge

Tesco pre-made Frittata - Its 9 % oil in the ingredients - please can somebody see if they can find this on syns online? Pretty Please? I know its a shame to spend syns on something like this when you can make it for free, but somehow its not the same

Lil_Me_2

sarymclary wrote: »

I was one of only 5 people in our whole group to lose this week. ....... I asked about Joe's sausages, and the consultant had never heard of them, and neither had any of the group, but told me to go to a butchers about 8 miles away to buy sausages on a Thursday, that are 1 point each!

Last week we had rubbish losses in our group (5pm), the 7pm group apparently only one person lost and that was 1lb! They had massive gains! I think our consultant can be a little too nice about the gains though, sometimes I wish she'd be visibly disappointed to try and kick start people a bit more.

We've already been told that this week is aimed at new members, so I suspect all the consultants have been told to go through EE again. Not fun though, but the new Italian book is out soon so we're having an Italian taster evening!

In terms of Joes sausages I love them so much! I've had them every day of the past week haha. My consultant actually does a big group order, so we save on postage and she brings them to group once a month. Highly recommend them!

trixietoes wrote: »

How many syns in Sainsbury's BGTY frozen extra lean pork sausages? I am guessing at about 0.5/1 each.... please say so as I have 60 of the !!!!!!s in the freezer :rotfl::rotfl:

1.5 sorry!! or 4 on green.

bettyB wrote: »

Desser will be 1 thorntons choc (OH is hiding them from me and giving me 1 each day!) I think they are about 5/6 syns
OR I'll have a shape dessert (5.5 syns)

Most thorntons are actually around 3-4 syns (dark caramel are only 2!)

Lil_Me_2

Skintslimmer wrote: »

Tesco pre-made Frittata - Its 9 % oil in the ingredients - please can somebody see if they can find this on syns online? Pretty Please? I know its a shame to spend syns on something like this when you can make it for free, but somehow its not the same

Cheese & Onion Frittatas, twin pack, chilled, 135g each

13.5!!!!

bettyB_2

Skintslimmer wrote: »

:eek: For one thorntons choc?? Do double check that - i'm sure the quality street equivalent is about 2-3 each - surely it can't really be much more than them??

Have you got the recipe for the ricotta and spinach lasagne? Sounds delish

They are big individually wrapped truffles, not little ones out of a box - about the size of two normal chocs from a box welded together, so that's why i'm synning them so highly!! thanks for checking tho

I got the lasagne recipe from Olive magazine and altered it to suit SW and my preferences - it was originally 'open ravioli' but i prefer the idea of layering the pasta like lasagne. I also made the tom sauce bit up myself!! Wld be a bit dry/plain otherise I think - I like some toms!

I have also halved the recipe since there's only 2 of us in my house - so the below serves 2. Not sure of the amounts tho, might add more/less of some things depending how it looks when i'm making it.

Fry 1/2 finely chopped onion and 1 chopped garlic clove till soft then add a tin of tomatoes - cook to reduce then add fresh basil/other herbs and seasoning

Meanwhile, fry 1 finely chopped onion and 2 chopped garlic cloves till soft
Add 100g spinach till wilted and then add 150g ricotta and season

Meanwhile, cook 6 lasagne sheets
Put a bit of the sauce on a plate, then layer lasagne and spinach ricotta mixture twice and finish with the third lasagne sheet, then pour over the rest of the tomato mixture, and serve! (you could put some cheese on top maybe? parmesan wld be nice)

Vixie_Pixie

Hiya peeps!!

WELCOME BACK DIZZY!!!!!! I am so glad to hear you had a fabtabulous holiday!!

I ordered my Italian book yesterday so fingers X that will be here soon so i can whip up some new exciting meals

Today is a green day

B - 3 x WW brown danish (HEB1), 3 tsps of spread (3) 2 chopped bananas cinnamon and sweetener - NOM! Cup of tea (100ml of skimmed milk taken as HEA1 - a one off split today- i know is shouldn't really )

Mid morning snack - Clementine, grapes, Fibre Plus bar (heb2)

Lunch - Pasta Salad - Pasta, sweetcorn, celery, tomato, cucumber and yellow pepper. 2 tbsp ex light mayo (1) and 28g RF cheddar (part HEA1)

Dinner - Mushroom risotto 2x tsp of olive oil = 4syns, 28g parmesan (hea2)

Syns so far = 8.

Have loads of leftover choc indoors so today am gonna have 4 mingles or 6 matchmaker sticks for 6 syns which brings my syn total up to 14

Lois2Lois

Hi Everyone,

Im a newbie to this website and possibly Slimming World too.
Are you all slimming world members? My friend has shown me her SW books and has shown me what to do. Do I need to join a club in your opinions? I don’t think im too keen in going and also parting with the money, however this is a new year and a new start and im determined to shift some weight.

Any advice would be great.

Lois x